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To: The_Reader_David

Whatever his appearance, he was not an attractive man.

Isa 53:1-3
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.


184 posted on 10/26/2006 9:34:56 AM PDT by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: streetpreacher
Whatever his appearance, he was not an attractive man.

And ironically He attracted a huge enough following that the religious leaders of His time considered Him a real threat.

199 posted on 10/26/2006 7:10:45 PM PDT by Jorge
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Well, yes and no.

Christ was not physically attractive to those in His own time, even as Isaiah prophesied--particularly at the time of His Passion to which that section of Isaiah points. However, I think Christendom's notion of what is attractive in a man's visage, has somewhat adapted to Him.


202 posted on 10/26/2006 9:21:25 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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